
Ostara's the time when many would say: Loose the chocolate.
But me, I say: Lose the chocolate.
For religious reasons, lose it.
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I live in Minnesota. It is wrong—wrong—that, in the stores here, apples should be expensive, and bananas cheap.
Wrong.
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Chocolate, like copal and bananas, is an exotic visitor from the fabled Southern lands of Ever-Summer. There's the connection with Ostara: think of it as sympathetic magic.
In a few years, most of the world's cacao trees, grown unsustainably in inappropriate places where—as a cash crop—their cultivation has helped to destroy sustainable local agriculture, will be dead from cacao blight, anyway.
By then, of course, oil will be running out in good earnest, and it will no longer be economically feasible to move foodstuffs over large distances.
Then chocolate will once again become the expensive exotic that, by rights, it ought to be.
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Birch beer is an old northern drink. I once split a bottle of it with a friend while standing under the tower on Glastonbury Tor i
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I remember back in the 80's they kept trying to pass off carob as chocolate. It never tasted right to me. Then back in the 00's